A simple strategy for defining polynomial spline spaces over hierarchical T-meshes

We present a new strategy for constructing spline spaces over hierarchical T-meshes with quad- and octree subdivision schemes. The proposed technique includes some simple rules for inferring local knot vectors to define C 2 -continuous cubic tensor product spline blending functions. Our conjecture is that these rules allow to obtain, for a given T-mesh, a set of linearly independent spline functions with the property that spaces spanned by nested T-meshes are also nested, and therefore, the functions can reproduce cubic polynomials. In order to span spaces with these properties applying the proposed rules, the T-mesh should fulfill the only requirement of being a 0-balanced mesh. The straightforward implementation of the proposed strategy can make it an attractive tool for its use in geometric design and isogeometric analysis. In this paper we give a detailed description of our technique and illustrate some examples of its application in isogeometric analysis performing adaptive refinement for 2D and 3D problems. A strategy for defining cubic tensor product spline functions is proposed.Simple rules for inferring local knot vectors to define blending functions for a given T-mesh.Examples of application of the strategy for adaptive refinement in isogeometric analysis and CAD.

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